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# How do I set my circle private?

Transparency and access to information are central to an agile, self-organizing organization. However, it may be necessary to limit the scope of access to information.
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# What's private and for whom?

**Circle privacy settings** allow you to manage your overall privacy preferences at circle level. Two privacy settings are defined for each circle:

* **Operations** (OKRs, meeting reports, checklists and metrics)
* **Documents** (attachments and publications)

When privacy is set for the circle, **only its members have access to this information.** For others, these tabs are hidden or empty, no matter if they are admins, users or inactive members.  
  
This also means that, when a circle has configured its operations and/or documents to be private, **the parent circle or the sub-circle(s) it contains don't have access to the documents, publications and/or operations** unless their members are also part of the circle in question.

📌 **Notes**:

* Admins can visualize which circles have been made private directly from the organization's **Administration** settings, with the Circle dashboard.

* Project boards and their tasks can be made private in the board's settings.
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# Who can modify privacy settings?

**Circle admins** have access to the privacy settings of their circle.

By default, circle admins are:

* The user that has created the circle
* The role in charge of assignation
* The role in charge of the link between the parent-circle and the circle is also a circle admin

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You can easily identify who the circle admins are on the **Members** section of the circle page: their avatar is circled in red.
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# How to define privacy settings for a circle?

* Go to the **Circle** page and click on the **3 dots**. Click on **Settings**
* Go to the **Privacy tab**
* Edit the privacy settings by checking the desired box to define who can access publications and operations
* Click on **Save**

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📌 **Note:** Users who are not members of the circle (no matter their status) cannot set their email notifications to follow the circle's activities.